I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

You are a vain fellow. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. A hero!... I don't quite know what that is: but, you see, I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.