Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a...
Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood.