"To be great is to be misunderstood."

"We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and firing of the idea of the beautiful into us."

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

"It is not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the b…"