The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?