Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.

Our beliefs are really rules for action.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

A thing is important if anyone think it important.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.