Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.

The world is full of contradiction.