This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.