It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.