“Death is not too high a price for this—This taste of heaven—”

“In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude. You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.”

“Dem Mimen flicht die Nachwelt keine Kränze.”

“But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?”

“Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.”

“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”

“Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?”