A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

To a valet no man is a hero.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.