The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

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.

Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.