Read moreVery notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
Read moreAt night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
Read moreThe fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
Read moreThere lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
Read moreDeath destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
Read moreFaith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.