Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.