So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

The only consistent people are the dead

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.