All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is the secret of joy.

We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.