One's only real life is the life one never leads.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!