All great art and literature is propaganda.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary