It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.