Quotes

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.

The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, courage, and love of work.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness.

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.