For others do I wait...for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

How poor the human mind would be without vanity! It resembles a well stocked and ever renewed ware-emporium that attracts buyers of every class: they can find almost everything, have almost everything, provided they bring with them the right kind of money -- admiration.

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.