Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

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

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.