nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

I am the Spirit that denies.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.