Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

No man can help another without helping himself.

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.