I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.