A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

There is no bigot like the atheist.

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