When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The doer alone learneth.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.