Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

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

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.