None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.