Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

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.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.