A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

Heaven is to be at peace with things.

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.