The Academy is too large and too vulgar. Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse.
It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They are but blank cheques.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
The truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
Life has been your art.
Most religious masters spend their time in the attempt of demostrating the untested with the undemonstrable.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.