Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

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

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.

Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.