Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?