A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

History is only gossip.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.