Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

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.

It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.