Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.