(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.