Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

To be active is the primary vocation of man.

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

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

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.