Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.

Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.