Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
Good books are the warehouses of ideas.
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.