In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

To be great is to be misunderstood.