True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.