Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.