“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”

“Is man one of God’s blunders, or is God one of man’s blunders?”

“So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the greatest happiness without envy!”

“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.”

“Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off.”

“He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!”

“Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, the world once seemed to me.”