Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.