Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
From W. H. Auden
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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