There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.