I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

He who can not learn to love must flatter.