There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.