You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.