The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.