If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

Yellow is capable of charming God.

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. 


I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.

To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.