In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

Art is the signature of man.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.