The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

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.