True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.