"Proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposit…"

"In Aristotle the conception of human nature is perfectly sound; everything ideal has a natural basis and everything n…"

"But what a perfection of rottenness in a philosophy!"

"On fact, the whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles,…"

"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said."

"Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the …"

"Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course…"

"[Everything] ideal has a natural basis and everything natural an ideal development."

"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."

"Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble, it must remain rare, if common, it must become mean."