Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.