Trust your heart rather than your head.

Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'

For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.