The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.