It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.