The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.
He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.