Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

Everything is hard before it is easy.

One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.

A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.