The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.