Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.
A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.
These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.