The best path through life is the highway.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.