People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

The days are long enough for those who use them.

If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.

The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.