Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.