“There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.”

“The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact; it is actually our truisms that are untrue.”

“Modern art has to be what is called ‘intense.’ it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong.”

“If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real; not that the grass is less real than it looks. St. Thomas (Aquinas) has a really logical right to say, in the words of the modern mystic, A. E.: "I begin by the grass to be bound again to the Lord.”

“For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.”

“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”

“There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.”