If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.