Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

You cannot make men good by law.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.