It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.