So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.

It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.