I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.