The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.