We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.