the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

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.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.