The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

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.

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.