The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.
We work not only to produce but to give value to time.
Experience has two things to teach: The first is that we must correct a great deal the second that we must not correct too much.