The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.