Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

The painter strives and competes with nature.

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.