If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.