The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.