English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.