We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
Nature always wears colours of the spirit.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.