Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.