An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

Man's most serious activity is play.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.