As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.