Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.