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.

I am happy in my prison of passion

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.