The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.