Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

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

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.