Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

Everything is hard before it is easy.

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

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.