If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.