My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

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

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.

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

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