I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

Passion makes every detail important.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.

IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.