The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.