Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

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