All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

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

There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.