Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.