Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.