Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.