Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

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.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.