There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.