To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

Habit is stronger than reason.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.