If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.