Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.