History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity.

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.