If a man is genuinely superior to his fellows the first thing that he believes in is the equality of man.
Modesty is always beautiful.
For the moral basis, it is obvious that man's ethical responsibility varies with his knowledge of consequences
A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals.
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.
We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.
The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.
The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it.
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it...
There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.
The function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much to make wonders facts as to make facts wonders.
Life is indeed terribly complicated to a man who has lost his principles.
We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders.
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.
