Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!