It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?