One who has a why can endure anyhow.

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

A life without music is an error.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.