“Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.”

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.”

“It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is the White Man who is the sole builder of civilizations. It was he who build the Egyptian civilization, the great unsurpassed Roman civilization, the Greek civilization of beauty and culture, and who, after having been dealt a serious blow by a new Semitic religion, wallowed through the Dark Ages, finally extricated himself, and then build the great European civilization.”

“Man in the electronic age has no possible environment except the globe and no possible occupation except information-gathering.”

“It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects… and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.”

“A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.”

“By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.”

“In this one man, the whole Church has been assumed by the Word.”

“I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people.”

“Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.”