Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.