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

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.