Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.