The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour. He will strive to give the fruit of that supreme spiritual force which passes through him to the greatest number of people, because this conveying of the feelings that have been born in him to the greatest number of people is his joy and his reward. The artist of the future will not even understand how it is possible for an artist, whose joy consists in the widest dissemination of his works, to give these works only in exchange for a certain payment.

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.