I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.