Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance—his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.

It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.

Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently—and a good half of it is palpably useless.

The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.