Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.