Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.

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.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.