Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Collectors are happy people.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.