Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.