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

The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Everything transitory is but an image.

On all the peaks lies peace.

The unnatural, that too is natural.