The only thing I can do is write. Everything else bores me.

"Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight."

The truth is, the science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the brain and the fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things.

I’d rather be respected than liked.

The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger. The second time, you are an honored guest. The third time you become family.

译文：任凭尘世白日里忙碌得像火一样炽热，我却像云朵飘荡，无忧无虑。

A true king is neither a husband nor a father; he considers his throne and nothing else.