It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.

I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.