Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.