Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Why not give Christianity a trial?

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.