Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.