When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.