Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

It is work which gives flavor to life.

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also - He above all - is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended.

Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.