Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.