History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.