Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Without passions you have no experience whatever.
I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.
Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.