By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Art is a delayed echo.

My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.