Life is short, but art lives forever.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.