For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

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.

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.

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.