Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.