No artist tolerates reality.

Love forgives the lover even his lust.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.