Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

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.

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

To create something you must be something.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?