Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.