Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

To know where a thing is we must have found it.

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.