The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

Live dangerously and you live right.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.