For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.