The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.