“The work of a crowd is always inferior, whatever its nature, to that of an isolated individual.”

“No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.”

“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. ”

“Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.”

“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always been unwilling to isolate their origins from the great ones who have gone before.”

“In a crowd, it's always easy to disappear.”