Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.