Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.