It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.