Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.