Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

All things are only transitory.

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.