We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.