Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.