In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

To the fool-king belongs the world.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.