Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

All understanding begins in wonder!

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!