It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.