All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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.
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.