No artist tolerates reality.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.