Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

You can take better care of your secret than another can.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.