Hate does not present many choices; if hate is your solution, you are fairly certain to hate all phemonena with equal joy and intensity, without troubling to drag into prominence any one feature from the loathsome whole.

I don't like quintessential certitude.

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done by us, as individuals, in private.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.