The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.