To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

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