One must keep repeating the Truth.

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.