No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.