Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
As a child, I felt myself to be alone and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know
Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.