The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Habit is stronger than reason.