Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.