Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

Passion makes every detail important.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.