People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.