If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift.

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.