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

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

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.

All wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.