“Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.”

“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”

“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”

“That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.”

“The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life.”

“A habitual indulgence in the inarticulate is a sure sign of the philosopher who has not learned to think, the poet who has not learned to write, the painter who has not learned to paint, and the impression that has not learned to express itself--all of which are compatible with an immensity of genius in the inexpressible soul.”

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