In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.