If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.