The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.