How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

Talent is often a defect in character.

It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.