There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.