Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.