A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.