One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.