I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
Do you remember Italy?
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.