Docility is the observable half of reason.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.