Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.