Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.