The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.