Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

A person hears only what they understand.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

Method will teach you to win time.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.