People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

If you want to be happy, be happy.