Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.