We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

The people rate strength before everything.

Time itself is an element.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.