Reality in strong doses frightens.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.