A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.