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

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

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.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.