. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.