The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.