Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.