The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.