First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

Life delights in life.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.