Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.