Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.