A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.