“Dullness is so much stronger than genius because there is so much more of it, and it is better organised and more naturally cohesive.”

“No one ever squared the circle with so much genius, or, excepting his principal object, with so much success.”

“It's not my fault so much as my genius”

“It’s demonstrably not ‘simply human nature’ to annihilate all around us. No, it’s the nature of this particular human culture. Human potential is so much more, and that’s why conflating the two is so toxic.”

“Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful… How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.”

“Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.”

“People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.”

“We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us.”

“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.”

“When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.”