A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.

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

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

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