I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.