One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

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.