The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.