Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.