When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.