Families, I hate you! Shut-in living, closed doors, jealous protectors of happiness.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with the other moments of the future.

'Know thyself' - a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A person who observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar that tried to 'know itself' would never become a butterfly.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Whither should we aim if not towards God?

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant.

The scholar seeks, the artist finds.

The work of art is a part of nature seen through a temperament.