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.

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

How circumscribed is woman's destiny!