Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.