There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.