An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

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.