“The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.”

“Fill each day with life and heart. There is no pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good person takes in doing good.”

“Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.”

“...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate...”

“Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.”

“Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.”

“Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.”