The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

One must keep repeating the Truth.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.