One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.