Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.