The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

In art, the best is good enough.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

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.