Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones, so very vocal and authoritative! The poor devil in man needs all the support and advocacy he can get. The artist is his natural champion. When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.