The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

Progress is the realization of utopia.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.