No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
What you can do, or think you can, begin it.
Mastery is often taken for egotism.
I wait for the morning of my tears
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.