It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .