Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.