The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.