“Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.”
“God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race -- to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of kindly sympathies and affections.”
“If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.”
“I think you should be grateful to the English, they built this country and made it civil.”
“...the state should support art,construed not as amusement but as one of the chief carriers of civilization.”
“The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.”