All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.
Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.
Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.