The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.

Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.