There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.