What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!

A person hears only what they understand.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.