Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.