It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.