Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

One must be something to be able to do something.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

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.

Writing is busy idleness.