Art raises its head where creeds relax.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.