Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.