It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.

But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.