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