Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.