You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.