“Pictures must not be too picturesque.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.”

“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”

“Our best thoughts come from others.”

“The first wealth is health.”

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”

“No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.”

“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”

“As soon as there is life there is danger.”

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”

“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”

“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.”

“People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.”

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.”

“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.”

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.”

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”

“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.”

“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”

“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”