I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.