Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.