Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

But a day must come when the fire of youth will be quenched in my veins, when winter will dwell in my heart, when his snow flakes will whiten my locks, and his mists will dim my eyes. Then my friends will lie in their lonely grave, and I alone will remain like a solitary stalk forgotten by the reaper.

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.