Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

To create something you must be something.