A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

Sing it not in mournful numbers.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.