Heaven is to be at peace with things.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.