He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.