A humanist has four leading characteristics - curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

I believe in aristocracy... - if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power... but... of the sensitive, the considerate.…

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.