"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."
"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."
"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."