Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.