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

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.

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

Art is a delayed echo.

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