To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.

The degree of sympathy we feel regarding another's fiasco is directly proportional to how easy or difficult it is for us to imagine ourselves, under like circumstances, making a similar mistake.

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.