The ultimate design is little different from the natural world.

Making an object means imbuing it with its own spirit.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

~ Not every poem is meant for oral stimulation, some are better devoured mentally.

Great minds think alike, but lovers think as one.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock.

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.