The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.