The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

In art, the best is good enough.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.