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

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.