Every beginning is cheerful.
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
For the nature of women is closely allied to art