Habit is the most imperious of all masters.

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.