Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.