Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

I wait for the morning of my tears

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

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.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.