O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Art is science made clear.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.