The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.