It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

It is the acme of life to understand life.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

Docility is the observable half of reason.