Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

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

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.