A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

What we don't understand we don't possess.

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

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

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.