I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.