Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

Isolation must precede true society.

A great teacher makes hard things easy.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.