Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.