We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.