An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not be any more soothing. It might be rather more creepy and uncanny.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.