It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.