Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

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.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.