Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.