It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.