Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
Depression is rage spread thin.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.
It is wisdom to believe the heart.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood.
The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.
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.
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...
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.
Art is a delayed echo.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.