Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather- beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.