Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.