Dispel Not, The Happy Delusions

Normally, The Sciences Distance Themselves From Life And The Return To It Via A Detour.

One Is Never Satisfied With A Portrait Of Persons Whom One Knows. That Is Why I Have Always Pitied Portraitists. One Demands So Seldom Of Others The Impossible, But Demands Just That Of The Portraitists.

Any Trifle Is Enough To Entertain Two Lovers.

Don't Dissipate Your Powers; Strive To Concentrate Them. Genius Thinks It Can Do Whatever It Sees Others Doing, But It Will Surely Repent Of Every Ill-judged Outlay.

Oh God, How Do The World And Heavens Confine Themselves, When Our Hearts Tremble In Their Own Barriers!