Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

An empire is an immense egotism.

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark