“The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.”

“Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.”

“I am the spirit that negates.And rightly so, for all that comes to beDeserves to perish wretchedly;'Twere better nothing would begin.Thus everything that that your terms, sin,Destruction, evil represent—That is my proper element.”

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”

“Everything transitory is but an image.”

“Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!”