It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

A person hears only what they understand.

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.