Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.