On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.