The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

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.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

To make something you have to be something.