I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.