It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.