Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.