A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

Beauty and sadness always go together.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.