Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.