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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
White… is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.