Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

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

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.