All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.