The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, for he confirmed the Biblical phrase "ye are gods," and so would St. Paul, who tells us that we are of "the race of God." Our century wants a new theology - that is to say, a more profound explanation of the nature of Christ and of the light which it flashes upon heaven and upon humanity.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.