Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.
[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
The intellect seeks, the heart finds.