There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.