Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.