Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?

When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.