Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.