“Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.”

“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.”

“In art the best is good enough.”

“It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.”

“One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.”

“In art the best is good enough.”

“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.”

“Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.”

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”

“Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.”

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”

“Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.”

“This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”

“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”

“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”

“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”

“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”

“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.”