If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.

It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.