No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.

The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.