Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.