America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.