Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.