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

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.