Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!