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

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.

Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.