What matters in art is not thinking but making.

It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.