Sanity is madness put to good use.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

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.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence