Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.

Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.

Passion cooks. Reason cleans.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.