The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what they are feeling. If a new scientific theory finds the soul of a man in his dreams, at least it ought not to leave out his day-dreams. And all fiction is only a diary of day-dreams instead of days. And this profound preoccupation of men's minds with certain things always eventually has an effect even on the external expression of the age.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.