You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.