He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

Imagination grows by exercise.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.