Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.