Only the soul that loves is happy

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.