He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.