Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.

Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than y…

The more I think about colour, the more convinced I become that this reflected half-tint is the principle that must predominate, because it is this that gives …

I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.

While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize - some…

The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne; Al this mene I be love.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.