Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.