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