It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.