Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

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

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.