There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.