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

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

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

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.