The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.