The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.