He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Art is the signature of man.

We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

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.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.