When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
The world is a bell with a crack in it; it rattles, but does not ring.
The importunity of young dilettanti must be borne with good-will; for as they grow old they become the truest worshippers of Art and the Master.
People have to become really bad before they care for nothing but mischief, and delight in it.
Clever people are the best encyclopædia.