There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.