Not everyone can be an orphan.
The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.