The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.