These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

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.

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.