Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.