In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

In true prose everything must be underlined.

Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.