One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.