Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.