Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

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

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.