Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.

There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.