Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility