Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.