The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection. |
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. |
The smallest feline is a masterpiece. |
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. |
There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. |
There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. |
Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye |
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor |
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. |
Time stays long enough for those who use it. |
Water is the driving force of all nature. |
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. |
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art |
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. |
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. |