When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.