The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

Action has magic, grace and power in it.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.