The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

The world is full of contradiction.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.

We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.