The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.