The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

We must be young to do great things.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.