There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Man must strive, and striving he must err.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.