For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.