The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.