The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.