I do not literally paint that table, 

but the emotion it produces upon me.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. 

My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

My powers are ordinary. 

Only my application brings me success.

Art does not reproduce what we see; 

rather, it makes us see.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, 

by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, 

may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, 

hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.

Who overcomes by force 

hath overcome but half his foe.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

To have his path made clear for him 

is the aspiration of every human being 

in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; 

the more select, the more enjoyable.