Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.