Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself