You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.

In art, the best is good enough.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.