Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.