“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
Nature“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”
Art“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
Nature“Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.”
God“Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.”
Age“To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.”
Men“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.”
Intelligence“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”
Great“Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.”
Music“Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.”
Famous“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.”
Alone“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”
Life“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”
Nature“Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.”
Good“In art the best is good enough.”
Art“Love can do much, but duty more.”
Love“This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
Alone“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
Life“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
Alone“I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.”
God“He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.”
Freedom“Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.”
Time