An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.