If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Let there be truth between us.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.