Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.