An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.