There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

We don't get to know anything but what we love.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

Every second is of infinite value.