Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.