There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.