The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.

. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.