It is of the nature of Reason to perceive things under a certain species of eternity.
What is true may sometimes seem unlike truth.
Beauty is the harmony of chance and the good.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
The true fruit of nature can only be plucked with a delicate hand not bribed by any earthly reward, and a fluttering heart. No hired man can help us to gather this crop.
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
All human acts involve more chance than decision.
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Every artist was first an amateur.
All fashionable vices pass for virtues.
No one can do anything for the happiness of others if he cannot be happy himself.
What is not abandoned is never completely lost.
He who plays with life Never gets ahead.
Of all the sciences needful for men, the chief one is the knowledge of how to live, doing as little harm as possible; and of all arts, the most important is that which teaches how to avoid evil, and how to produce good with the least violence.
Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
Most teachers waste their time by asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what the pupil knows or is capable of knowing.
The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's dignity without intruding upon the liberty of others.
And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.
Man is absurd by what he seeks, great by what he finds.
Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
Charity is a universal benevolence, and benevolence an habit of love.
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in one's own sunshine.
Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.
Art repeats the eternal Ideas apprehended through pure contemplation, the essential and abiding element in all the phenomena of the world.
If only these metaphysicians would give their attention to the lengthy discursive processes which lead science to build new intuitions.
I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.
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