Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.