We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.