The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.

The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.