Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.