There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
Whither should we aim if not towards God?
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.