In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.