There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.