Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.