Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

One must be something to be able to do something.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.