Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.