There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that I drink another whiskey and soda. I, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.

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

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.