There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.