Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You can prove that a man is not the son of a king, or that he is not the delegate of a definite number of people. But you cannot prove that a man is not a gentleman.

Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.