Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

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.

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.