All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

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

Memory... is an internal rumor.