Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.

I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.