One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.