What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.

I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and cover the walls of my hut with them.

What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.