The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.

The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.