But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

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.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.