“Man is broad, too broad, indeed. I'd have him narrower.”

“Yes, man is broad, too broad, indeed. I'd have him narrower”

“Yes, man is broad, too broad, indeed. I'd have him narrower. The devil only knows what to make of it! What to the mind is shameful is beauty and nothing else to the heart. Is there beauty in Sodom? Believe me, that for the immense mass of mankind beauty is found in Sodom. Did you know that secret? The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”

“The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.”

“A man of broad principles. Of liberal sentiments. Even a generous man...Yet one might say that his way through the world was so broad it scarcely made a path at all”

“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”