People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

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.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

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.