You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical genius means an aptitude for discerning truth under appearances or in disguises which conceal it; for discovering it in spite of the errors of testimony, the frauds of tradition, the dust of time, the loss or alteration of texts. It is the sagacity of the hunter whom nothing deceives for long, and whom no ruse can throw off the trail.

When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.