The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.
To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.
One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.