We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.
That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.