We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.