The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

The world is the same everywhere.

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.