The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
He made a single instrument speak a language of infinity. He could often sum up, in ten lines that a child could play, poems of a boundless exaltation, dramas of unequalled power.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.