No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."