The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.