The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.