No One As Ever Completed Their Apprenticeship.

He Who Does Not Expect A Million Readers Should Not Write A Line.

From Desire I Plunge To Its Fulfilment, Where I Long Once More For Desire.

I Am What I Am, So Take Me As I Am!.

One Is Led Astray Alike By Sympathy And Coldness, By Praise And By Blame

The Misfortune In The State Is, That Nobody Can Enjoy Life In Peace, But That Everybody Must Govern; And In Art, That Nobody Will Enjoy What Has Been Produced, But That Every One Wants To Reproduce On His Own Account.