The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

Thought is invisible nature.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.