Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
Deserve your dream.
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.