The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.
When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
