I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.

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

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

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

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

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

The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.