The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.