A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

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

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.