People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.