Q1) The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.


Q2) I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself to be an average man.

Q3) Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of the genius.

Q4) The worst men often give the best advice; our thoughts are better sometimes than our deeds.

Q5) A news sense is really a sense of what is important.

Q6) There is only one success . . to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Q7) You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

Q8) Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Q9) Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.