One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.