The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.