The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.