The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.