We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.