It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.