The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.