It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.