Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

Art is the proper task of life.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.