Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.