The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.