Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.