Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.