Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.