But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.