Art is the proper task of life.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.