A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.

For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.