I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.