Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue.
In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.
We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.
Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.
To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.
I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.
Toil of science swells the wealth of art.
Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.
What’s old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.
A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?
Sorrow is brief but joy is endless.
Man is an imitative creature.
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.