One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

It is opposition that makes us productive.

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!