A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.