There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

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.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.