New arts destroy the old.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

boredom: the desire for desires.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought

progress.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

God gave burdens, also shoulders.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. What people need and what they want may be very different.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.