But what I do I do because I like to do.

A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the man who composed it. Here is the difference between the classical and romantic attitudes to art.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.