Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.