The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.