The historian is a prophet looking backward.

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself, not forever, however, but only at first. For man cannot exist without a living center, and if he does not have it within himself, he may seek it only in a human being. Only a human being and his center can stimulate and awaken that of another.

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.