Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.