The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.