The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

A mans feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value, is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

There is nothing sacred about convention: there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.