“[W]hat is ugly and evil is apt to change and grow milder with time.”
“[W]hat is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?”
“[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?”
“We are indeed apt to ascribe certain faults to the place or to the time; but those faults will follow us, no matter how we change our place.”
“Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than time.”
“[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.”