Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.