A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.
Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.