It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

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.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

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

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.