No artist tolerates reality.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

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