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

"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of concl…"

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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