A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Wishes are premonitions of abilities.