Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.