"Health, south wind, books, old trees, a..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.”

“The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.”

“Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.”

“It is a great art to saunter !”

“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”

“You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.”

“He is the richest who is content with the least.”

“There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside.Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.”

“Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?”