Habit is stronger than reason.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.