There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.