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.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.