It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

There is no bigot like the atheist.