They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.