Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

The only object of liberty is life.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.