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.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.