“Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.”

“Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.”

“You could be happy without me - but not become unhappy through me. This I felt alive in me - and thereupon I built my hopes. You could give yourself to another, but none could love you more purely or more completely than I did. To none could your happiness be holier, as it was to me, and always will be. My whole existence, everything that lives within me, everything, my most precious, I devote to you, and if I try to ennoble myself, that is done, in order to become ever worthier of you, to make you ever happier.”

“Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.”

“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”

“I feel an army in my fist.”

“Der Mensch braucht wenig, und an Leben reich Ist die Natur.”