I wait for the morning of my tears

Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.