A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

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

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: an ...