As a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

My parents told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done.

I am always scared before going on stage this is the fear which makes me do well.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster, Nor long summer bide so late; And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster, For some things are ill to wait.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That inspires an even more dug-in position.

The more people who have access to this vital information the better society will be.