To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.