For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.