Willing is not enough, we must do.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.