Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself.