The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.