You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.