To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

Dream strange things and make them look like truth.

There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.