The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

True happiness springs from moderation.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

One spares old people just as one spares children.