Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

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.

Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality