“A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.”

“The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any practical method immoral.”

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

“We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.”

“There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.”

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”

“For the moral basis, it is obvious that man's ethical responsibility varies with his knowledge of consequences”