A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.