One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

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

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.