Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.

History is the science of what never happens twice.

The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.