Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.