The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.