The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.
England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.
Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to wo...
Art is a delayed echo.
The worship of power is an old religion.
The muffled syllables that Nature speaksFill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on without enquiry and almost at first sight the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends the part known gives us evidence enough...