How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

What the hell is an oboe?

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.