In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.