“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always f...”

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”

“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”

“Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.”

“Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.”

“Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”

“There is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way.”

“Rich and wealth comes to a man only through diligence”

“No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. The merit of their beauty is greatly enhanced by their scarcity. With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consis...”