On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.