Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.