Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.