It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.