As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.