Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

If we had keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.