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

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.

We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.