This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

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.