God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.