What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.

This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.