You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Voyages are accomplished inwardly.

What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

Better to separate than never to marry.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.