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

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

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

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.