We must learn to suffer more.

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.