Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

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.

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.