Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

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.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.