Man is an imitative creature.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

Life is earnest, art is gay.

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.