Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.