The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Principle is a passion for truth.
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.