The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.
You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.
We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.