Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.