The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.
You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.