We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.