That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

. . . 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.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.