Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

To be active is the primary vocation of man.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.