To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself, not forever, however, but only at first. For man cannot exist without a living center, and if he does not have it within himself, he may seek it only in a human being. Only a human being and his center can stimulate and awaken that of another.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.