Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.

The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom.

The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.

Very dangerous things, theories.