Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

There is no bigot like the atheist.