The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

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.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.