Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
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.
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.
If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them
Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.
Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.
Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.