...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

Humility is the mother of giants.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

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.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.