Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.