“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”

“Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.”

“What we do not understand we have no right to judge”

“It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.”

“When we are doing nothing in particula, it is then that we are living through all our being.”

“What is it which has always come between real life and me? What glass screen has, as it were, interposed itself between me and the enjoyment, the possession, the contact of things, leaving me only the role of the looker-on?”

“Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ”