To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

Never test another man by your own weakness.