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.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.