I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.