 Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself. |
| A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. |
| The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. |
| If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. |
| Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life. |
| Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can. |
| What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. |
| Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it. |
