Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Man lives by imagination.
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.