Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

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

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.

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.