“This cancer of the mind which consists of thinking all too sadly that certain things ‘are,’ while others, which well might be, ‘are not.”

“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.”

“Christianity is itself so jolly a thing that it fills the possessorof it with a certain silly exuberance, which sad and high-mindedRationalists might reasonably mistake for mere buffoonery andblasphemy; just as their prototypes, the sad and high-minded Stoics ofold Rome, did mistake the Christian joyousness for buffoonery andblasphemy.”

“... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...”

“I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.”

“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.”