Experience is only half of experience.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

Every beginning is cheerful.

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.

The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.