What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

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.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.