In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

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.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.